9th International Conference on Information Technology New Generations
ITNG 2012
April 16-18, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Main conference site: http://www.itng.info/
Call for Papers
Special Session: Next Generation Data and Tool Integration
for Biological Workflows
Theme:
Integration
of data sources and tools, and performing computations on them is one of the
key problems for using the data from experimental biology today. However, these
resources are highly diverse in nature in terms of representation, data
formats, and computer systems and are distributed across the network. Although
this broad spectrum of information is accessible over the Web, each data source
comes with its own structure, semantics, data formats, names, concepts, and
access methods. Currently, the burden falls on the scientist to manually (via
programs) convert between the data formats, resolve conflicts, integrate data,
and interpret results in order to make viable use of this information. This
special issue will provide a forum to bring together researches and practitioners
working to solve these challenges in biological data and tools tool integration
using Service Oriented and Cloud technologies.
Suggested areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Challenges,
solutions, and methodologies in providing web services interfaces to
biological data sources and tools.
- Methodologies
for data transformation and normalization including transformation of raw
data into information and knowledge.
- Design,
management, and governance for information infrastructures, including
information flow, adaptive evolution, and interoperability.
- Development of
algorithms and data structures for analysis of biological information.
- Querying and
query optimization against biological sources.
- Ontology based
data and tool integration.
- Semantic Web
technologies and formalisms for biological data and applications.
- Web Service
and Cloud based biological workflow configuration and deployment systems.
- Web interfaces
for defining, accessing, and executing biological workflows.
- Dynamic
discovery of data sources and tools.
- Data exchange
rules among data sources and tools.
- Case studies
in application of service oriented and Cloud Computing techniques to solve
data integration issues.
- Handheld based
monitoring of biological workflows, and the role of pervasive computing
Paper Submission:
Interested authors should
submit a 3 to 6-page paper of their original and unpublished work including 5
keywords in the IEEE conference proceedings format, slightly modified for ITNG.
You can use this template: IEEEPaperTemplateModifiedForITNG.doc. Please submit
your paper via the Web-based system at: https://www.softconf.com/c/itng2012/.
Electronic submission in MS Word (.docx) format or .pdf format is preferred.
Papers must represent high quality and previously unpublished work, not
currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Proceedings
will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing
Services.
Evaluation Process
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and
soundness. Per ITNG policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be
reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings published by the CPS and be available
via digital library.
Deadlines
Paper Submission Deadline:
October 21, 2011
Author Notification:
December 9, 2011
Camera Ready Paper Due (6
pages maximum): February 10, 2012
Session Organizers
Prof. Sushil K. Prasad,
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Dr. Janaka Balasooritya, Arizona
State University, Tempe